McDonalds Franchise Openings

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Since its first franchise opening in Des Plains, Illinois, in 1955, McDonalds has expanded to well over 30,000 locations worldwide.
This animation chronicles the spread of McDonalds across the globe.
The data used for this animation were taken from mcdonalds.com and mcspotlight.org, and were current up to the year 2000.

McDonalds Franchise Openings

Watch this and describe the way that McDonalds spread across the globe...

McDonalds Franchise Openings from eric socolofsky on Vimeo.
Since its first franchise opening in Des Plains, Illinois, in 1955, McDonalds has expanded to well over 30,000 locations worldwide. This animation chronicles the spread of McDonalds across the globe.The data used for this animation were taken from mcdonalds.com and mcspotlight.org, and were current up to the year 2000.

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Food stories

A few final food-related areas for our work on food.

Bee Wilson's article here is excellent.

Also check this story on McDonalds and their Monopoly game, which is being blamed for encouraging people to buy more fast food than they otherwise would, to try to win prizes.

MP Tom Watson has called the competition a "danger to public health"

Big Mac Miles

To go with the story from yesterday on the 8000 miles travelled by the ingredients.

From CDA Group Ltd

The global reach of McDonalds

Via Matt Podbury

McDonalds - glocalisation of food...

Thanks to Miss Stockings for the lead to another McDonalds resource for glocalisation.

Richard Allaway has previously shared images of meals that he has eaten in various McDonalds restaurants he has eaten in where the standard menu that is familiar the world over (the globalised version) is adapted for the local market (glocalisation) 

According to this very useful Open University page, glocalisation (which Blogger 'helpfully' keeps correcting to globalisation whenever I type it) is related to the following:

‘Glocalisation’ combines the words ‘globalisation’ and ‘localisation’ to emphasise the idea that a global product or service is more likely to succeed if it is adapted to the specific requirements of local practices and cultural expectations. The term started to appear in academic circles in the late 1980s, when Japanese economists used it in articles published by the Harvard Business Review. For the sociologist Roland Robertson, who is often credited with popularising the term: ‘glocalization means the simultaneity – the co-presence – of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies’ (Robertson, 1997, p. 4).‘Glocalisation’ combines the words ‘globalisation’ and ‘localisation’ to emphasise the idea that a global product or service is more likely to succeed if it is adapted to the specific requirements of local practices and cultural expectations. The term started to appear in academic circles in the late 1980s, when Japanese economists used it in articles published by the Harvard Business Review. For the sociologist Roland Robertson, who is often credited with popularising the term: ‘glocalization means the simultaneity – the co-presence – of both universalizing and particularizing tendencies’ (Robertson, 1997, p. 4).

The resource is a food blog called Travelling McDs, which is written by James McGowan who records the meals eaten on his global travels, which are quite extensive.
He has eaten a number of meals which are adapted for the local palate, or to celebrate some aspect of the local culture.
Worth checking out - there are plenty of alternatives to the Big Mac here...

Image: McDonalds at Disneyland Paris - image by Alan Parkinson

McDonalds around the World

McDonalds has produced a useful web page which connects to their activities around the world.
We will be using this as part of the Year 7 unit on Food... and also the Year 8 unit on the Geography of Stuff perhaps...